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The Humble Bundle with Android 5
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- prawks 14y agoI actually didn't even look at the last one because I believed it was Android-only.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoYou've got it backwards. It used to be called 'Humble Indie Bundle', and it didn't have Android versions. [1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/33272/GDC_2011_Humble_Indie_Bundle_Creators_Talk_Inspiration_Execution.php http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/33272/GDC_2011_Humble_Ind...
- hugoc 14y agoExcept that isn't it either, Android bundles 1 through 4 where named Humble Bundle for Android.
- andrewguenther 14y agoYou are absolutely right, my mistake. I removed my previous comment so I don't mislead people.
- andrewguenther 14y agoActually no,The Humble Indie Bundle is just one of many flavors of bundles that Humble Bundle has offered. This is, in fact, the fifth Android bundle. The first Android bundle was offered at the beginning of 2012. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Bundle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Bundle
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoThe article I linked to is from 2011. Humble Bundle began in 2010 [1]. The Humble Bundle for Android came way later, see their own list [2]. [1] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/05/the-greatest-indie-game-sale-ever-and-how-it-came-to-be/ http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/05/the-greatest-indie-gam... [2] http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/281031-prior-bundle-statistics http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/281...
- andrewguenther 14y agoRegardless of dates, your original point is still incorrect. The organization is called Humble Bundle. They offer multiple types of bundles. Humble Indie Bundle was the first, but Humble Bundle for Android is a separate offering of the Humble Bundle service.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoYou've deleted it now, but your first comment made it seem like Humble Bundle began with Android software. Thanks for removing the misinformation.
- freehunter 14y agoI think it's incredible that these games are developed for Android, Mac, PC, and Linux and available on all platforms with one purchase. I'm hoping for the day when this is the norm, when purchasing an app gives you access to all platforms. This is one thing sorely lacking on consoles that I fear will never catch up. If I'm buying Call of Duty on Xbox, I would love to play it when I go to the house of a friend that only has a Playstation. The innovation of the indie software movement will hopefully push the big players to play catch-up to modern days. I was more than happy to pay a pretty decent amount of money to put my dollars towards encouraging this. Although I'll admit I was confused by the title thinking that this was in celebration of the launch of Android 5 Key Lime Pie...
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoNot all of these were developed as cross-platform from the start. AFAIK, Humble actually reaches out to game developers to help nudge along ports on other platforms for the bundles (to what extent exactly I'm unclear on).
- Wingman4l7 14y agoIIRC, there have also been some complaints regarding how well the Linux versions have worked.
- pja 14y agoOne or two games have been based on Adobe AIR, development of which which has been abandoned on Linux, but they will run, if poorly.
- Wingman4l7 14y agoThat would be Amanita's Botanicula, I believe. Also, LIMBO got some flack for not being native Linux but the Windows version in a CrossOver wrapper.
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- minimaxir 14y agoI strongly recommend getting bundle and beating the average just for Dungeon Defenders alone. Aside from a few end-game progression issues, it's an incredible value, especially with the extremely, extremely large amount of DLC.
- DigitalJack 14y agoDLC?
- hugoc 14y agoDownloadable content, what used to be sold as expansions when distributed in CDs.
- stonemetal 14y agoDown Loadable Content. Addons that kind of thing.
- minimaxir 14y agoDownloadable content. In DD's case, it's an expansion, exclusive characters (2 of which are overpowered), and exclusive costumes.
- mercurial 14y agoI'll wait until the Linux version I bought in the previous bundle actually works without crashing after five minutes of play, I think.
- kostya-kow 14y agoI usually buy HIB for $0.01 and the games that properly work on Linux and have a working Steam package, I re-buy them for higher price.
- JoshTriplett 14y agoThat sounds like a good argument for Humble Bundle to have a convenient way for purchasers to go back and make a second donation after purchase.
- baby 14y agoSuper Hexagon is a must have. It looks like a flash game but it demands a lot of skill if you want to finish the game. The music is awesome. It's extremely addictive! (it's from the guy who made VVVVVVVV) Dungeon Defenders is perfect if you have friends to play with. It's like a tower defense mixed with a 3rd person shooter and a hacknslash.
- CyberShadow 14y ago> It looks like a flash game It actually uses Flash under the hood! (Source: A friend asked me to have a quick look at it given my Flash reversing background ( https://github.com/CyberShadow/RABCDAsm https://github.com/CyberShadow/RABCDAsm ))
- becojo 14y agoJust some technicalities but, Super Hexagon was originally made in Flash but then ported to C++. Which made a Linux version possible. http://distractionware.com/blog/2012/11/hyper-mode/ http://distractionware.com/blog/2012/11/hyper-mode/
- ars 14y agoYou can play it here: http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh_B/hexagon http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh_B/hexagon (not sure if it's exactly the same thing).
- baby 14y agoNot really but the experience is similar.
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- lambda 14y agoAny good brief reviews of these games? Which ones are worth playing? Also, I tend to have the most time for gaming while on the bus or the like, playing on my phone. Any of these particularly good or particularly bad in a mobile form factor?
- Daiz 14y agoSuper Hexagon is certainly super. I've bought it like 5 times myself already (once for PC, thrice as a gift, once for my Galaxy Nexus) and have easily spent 10+ hours on it. It's incredibly well designed, works extremely well on mobile (a single game generally only lasts seconds) and it's very addicting.
- cocoflunchy 14y agoThis game looks impossible... the video presentation is scaring me.
- baby 14y agoit seems like it's impossible at first. But you still have fun in the normal levels. Then you get better, and before your realize it you're beating the last level.
- Daiz 14y agoOh, it's hard for sure, but a very fair kind of hard. I actually finally beat the game myself about a week ago - I've now managed to do it a couple more times. Relevant plug - I recorded some gameplay footage from the PC version a while back, in case you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq36XXqg9iI&list=PLpDx3aCHawJmgrvQVZZ1vgO05DJB6gdZY&index=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq36XXqg9iI&list=PLpDx3aC...
- Jare 14y agoProgress in Super Hexagon comes in small but incredibly "I can't believe I did THAT!" satisfying doses, while defeat does not taste sour at all. It's the best very hard game I've ever played.
- Samuel_Michon 14y ago"All games in this Humble Bundle are compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android." That tells me enough to know I wouldn't enjoy any of those games.
- simonw 14y agoWhy is that?
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoBecause the games I like are usually designed with one device and OS in mind. Touch, joystick, mouse, and keyboard interaction all have their strengths and disadvantages -- games specifically made for them use those strengths. The same counts for the different OSes and their native SDKs. Unless these games are completely different on each platform, I doubt they would impress me. Granted, it can be done – Super Monkey Ball is a great example – but obviously, it's extremely expensive to do so.
- baby 14y agoSuper Hexagon was designed at first for iOS. And then it was ported to other device. So if you can enjoy it on iOS you can enjoy it on other devices as well since the controls don't change that much. As for the other kind of portage. I'm trying Dungeon Defenders right now on a Nexus 7 to see how they managed it.
- aviraldg 14y agoSpoken like a true prisoner of the walled garden. Games (at least the good ones) are designed with emotions in mind - in fact, the ideal game immerses the player to such an extent that control differences become immaterial.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoControl differences tend to get in the way. Arcade games that recreate the classic joystick and buttons on touch devices are often less than immersive. Games made for accelerometer or gyroscope input don't make much sense on a desktop computer. Games like Tetris aren't fun to use with a mouse. Etc etc.
- arturkim 14y agoFor those that don't know, the bundle comes with individual Steam keys. Dungeon Defenders and all its DLC are in one key though.
- Jach 14y agoHow many bundles to go before they start accepting bitcoin too?
- esrauch 14y agoLikely never? The EFF decided to stopped accepting bitcoin: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin
- nikolak 14y agoThere was a discussion on reddit about this where one user emailed them asking about bitcoin and they said[1] that: >The EFF has a great statement[2] on BitCoin that closely follows our feelings toward BitCoin But someone from EFF said, allegedly, that they will reconsider accepting bitcoin because: "It is possible that the legal and/or technical landscape has changed enough in the last couple of years for us to reassess our stance on taking BitCoin donations." [3] [1] http://redd.it/191e77 http://redd.it/191e77 [2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin [3] http://redd.it/199iik http://redd.it/199iik
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- lazugod 14y agoOh. When you commented on the HN parody, I though you were funny (why criticise a copycat for being accurate?). But it appears you're just dumping copypasta. Don't, please. This isn't the place for it. Emailing the author will get results, spamming HN won't.
- jahabrewer 14y agoIf anyone else was confused like me: This is the "The Humble Bundle with Android" 5 not "The Hundle Bundle" with "Android 5"
- hdra 14y agoThe joke at the end of very Humble Bundle video is one of the thing that I always wait for with the bundle. :)
- guelo 14y agoI'm not much of a gamer but last time I came across a humble bundle I gave it a try to figure out what the buzz was about, but I was completely dissapointed in the variety of the games. All five games were of some guy (no girls) walking around a puzzle world. I've heard complaints that the big corporation games are all just 3d shooters but it seems that indie developers don't have much imagination either. Looking at this bundle it looks like there's a chance there's some variety so maybe I just got unlucky with my bundle.
- trentmb 14y agoWere their penises on display? Or are you just making a cis-gendered assumption about these characters?
- lambda 14y agoHmm. I've seen a few that were just straight up puzzle adventure games, or "some guy walking around a puzzle world." Though one of them, Braid, was one of the top most creative games of the past 10 years, I would say. Then there were some action or action platformers. Then there were some puzzle games like World of Goo or Osmos which are very much not "some guy walking around", but more abstract puzzle type games, and fairly creative. There was Aquaria, where you had a female mermaid swimming around an action-adventure world. There was "Gratuitous Space Battles", which is what it sounds like. So, yeah, while the puzzle platformer is something that's fairly popular in the indie community, it's by no means all of the games. About the only things that there weren't were 3D shooters (which I think indies avoid because they're done to death by major studios with bigger budgets), and straight up abstract arcade games, which this one provides with Super Hexagon. What else do you think is missing, that an indie shop could do well and which isn't already crowded out by the big companies?
- mrgoldenbrown 14y agoWhich bundle was that? The ones I've purchased have always had more variety than that.
- slmt 14y agoIt's good to see the average spend for Linux is way above the average for Windows and Mac. That pours cold water on any notion that Linux users are somehow against paying for software. It also suggests that people use Linux distros just because they're damn good operating systems, not necessarily because they are free as in beer. It could also be interpreted as Linux users being starved of games and therefore having more to spend per game. Nevertheless, it challenges preconceived notions of the ability to make money selling Linux games.
- rbn 14y agoI was going to build a Pay What You Want platform but decided not to.
- da_n 14y agoYour lament is palpable.
- limmeau 14y agoI'm tempted to buy this for the soundtracks alone. Of the last bundle, I stopped playing the games after a few hours, but the soundtracks are still on heavy rotation in my work headphones.
- erre 14y agoDear Lord, am I the only one who finds the video unbearably annoying? Mind you, didn't stop me from buying the bundle, though :)
- pdknsk 14y agoI bought for Super Hexagon, and gave all to money to the developer. I used to give a split to Humble, but since not getting a refund for games which didn't run on Linux (or were very poorly ported), I won't.